Charlton County herald. (Folkston, Ga.) 1898-current, July 02, 1908, Image 5
PATTERSON ANDKITCHIN Tennessee and North Carolina Name Candidates for Governor. SIXTY-ONE BALLOTS IN N. C. Prohibition and County Unit Plan of Voting Main Issues in Ten nessee. Nashville, Tenn—ln Saturday’s democratic primary, after the hardest fought, bitterest and most picturesque campaign ever known in Tennessee, Governor M. R. Patterson won the gu bernatorial nomination over E, W. Car maci, ' For supereme court judge, D. L. Lansden was sutcessful, B, D. Bell, in cumbent, being an extreinely close competitor., For railroad commission er, Prank Avent won over W. C. Whitthorne, : The nominations are to be made in convention, the primary being on the county unit plan, county committees naming delegates in accordance with the vote cast. The ninety-six counties will send 1,318 delegates to the coavention, and of taese Patterson will have over 700. His popular majority is between 8,000 and 10,000. State-wide prohibition was the issue on which Carmack based his fight, while Patterson defended the present status, practically local option, which has come under his administration. To Carmack’s banner tie Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloom League were rallizd, and the state had been traversed by wo men campaign orators, some from other states. The women and children continued to work for Carmack at the polls, Under the present law liquors are only sold in Memphis, Nasnville, Chat tanooga, La Follette and Binghamton. La Follette voted against surrendering its charter so as to come under the provisions of the present law. Bing hamton is a manufacturing town in Shelby county, six miles from Mem phis. Aside from prohibition, Carmack's chief fight was made against the coun ty unit plan, which was adopted by the state committee over his protest, his contention being for a general state wile primary, These two counts have been the main oneg in the indictment he drew against Governor Patterson in a series of joint discussions throughout the state. - Great crowds heard the de bates, which were remarkable for the forcefulness, eloquence and satire dis played by each, as well. for the height to which feeling ran between both the debaters and their partisans. Patterson i 3 serving his first term as governor. The rivalry between him and Carmack is not only political, but personal. In the election of 1906 the late Gen eral Josiah Patterson, father of the present governor, was defeated for re election 10 congress in the Tenth dis trict, g e Memphis district, by Mr. Car “ WAL T P I - Charlotte, N. C.—William Walton Kitchin, for twelve years representa tive in congress from the fifth North Carolina district, was nominated for ~ the governorship of North Carolina by the democratic state convention at 8 o'clock Saturday after the warmest fight in the annals of the state, Tie convention has neen in almost at noon and the nomination required continuous session since Wednesday _sixty-one ballots. In every respect the ~contest has been remarkable. Lined up against Kitchin were Locke Craig, of Buncombe county, one of the most ‘Popular democrats in the state, and Colonel Ashley Horne of Johnston, a promiaent business man, W. C. Newland of Caldwell county, was nominated for lieutenaat gov ernor, FIRST BALE OF NEY £OTTON, Brings 35 Cents i New York, and Was Immediately Shipped to Liverpool, New York City.—The first bale of this year's cotton crop was sold -at auction at the New York Cotton Ex change. It was fully strict good mid dling in grade, and brought 35 cents per pound. This bale arrived at Hous ton, Texas, on the morning of June 20, and was sold at auction there at 54 cents per pound. It was immediately expressed to this city and following the sale was hurried on hoard the Mau retania, sailing at noon for Liverpool, where it will again be sold at auction according to the usual custom. This is said to be a record for rapid hand ling of the first bale, which has trav eled from Houston to New York and will be sold in Liverpool within a pe riod of ten days. g SPECTACULAR OIL FIRE. 100,000 Barrels Burned by Fire Result : ing From Electric Storms. Pittsburg, Pa.—Over 100,000 barrels of oil consumed by fire, tiiree valuable oil refineries destroyed and an estimat ed loss of about $500,000 are the re sults of electric storms which passed over western and northern Pennsylva nia, * 2 The ignition of the large quantity of oil by lightning caused three specta cular fires at Bradford, Warren and Washington, Pa. The fires are under control, but for a wide area surrounding the destroyed tanks thers is a scene of blackened, smoking earth and charred vegeta tion, BIG CELEBRATION IN TAMPA. In Honor of the Aerival of First Steam ;%.’3,_,, ~f,f"-‘fit.-N‘W Line. i < Tampd, ' FLA.—The steamer Rio Q,Granfie:‘ 2,700 tons, in command of | Capté_ifln‘fi_,_%lf,’%ff the Mallory line from New ¥ork to Tampa and Mobile, ar «rived hepe on the first trip. This is the ’2::[ Q‘g steamer to enter the twenty-foot channel ai Tampa. A big celebration was given the event hgre, . NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS . Plan to Put 250,000 Ready for Call of : President. New York City—The war depart ment has perfected a plan for the vir tual amalgamation into a trained army of 250,000 men ready to answer the call of the bresident, of the regular and national guard troops in the United States. Assistant Secretary of War Oliver, who is at Pine Camp, wit nessing the department of the east maneuvers nas given cuat this informa tion. Secretary Oliver in outlining the plan for the reorganization of nation al and state troops declared that the word militiamen is now a misnomer and that the state troops since the pas sage of the Dick bill by congress are United States volunteers. The war department plan means nothing more nor less than that the moment this country gets into troubl: the so-called nationa) guard organiza tions will cease to exist as such, and immediate!ly become units of the reg ular army, absolately under the con trol of the pre‘sident, and the secretary of war, “The scheme,” said General Oliver, “is the first move in the plan to make this country a military power. Before this we have had nd authority over the state troops, better known perhaps as militia and national guard organi zations. What we propose to do is to organize these state troops and all the regular forces into eight army corps and the New England states, New York and other states in the military division known as the department of the east, will constituts the first army corps. “The maneuver grounds here on Pine Camp, if the government buys them, will be the place wiere the na tional and state troops that will be ia the first army corps will have their field training. In other words it means that two years hence 50,000 men will be mobilized on this plan. “As at present planuned the war de partment will ba able to put into the field almost immediately an army of 250,000 men, 3 ; A GROWING INDUSTRY. |Two Hundred Thousand Barrels of | Oysters Planted. l Jackson, Miss.—According to ad {vices received from the gulf coast, |the Mississippi oyster commission is {making good headway with the work {of planting reefs in the, Mississippi sound, Over 200,000 barrels of shells will be planted during the summer months and, if former experience is repeated, these beds will be furnishing fair sized oysters within the next three or four years, rThe former experi ments have been remarkahly success ful, and the commission is getting the work of propagation in firstelass shape, According to members of the com mission, the reefs are now in better shape than for some time, - Shells that were planted only three weeks ago are developing clusters, and the ratio of growth is much larger in the waters of the gulf than along the At lantic coast. : | - CLUB WOMEN INJURED. Tally-Ho Coach Turns Over On Steep | Hill—Dozen in Hospital. ; Newport, R. I.—Two women dele gates to the Genera]l Federation of Women’s clubs’ convention in Boston were dangerously hurt and ten others jmore or less serfously injured when a tally-ho coach in which they were rid ing capsfzed on a steep aill on Bath road. All of the twelve women who were in the coach were taken to the Newport ho3pital, The delegates were lon an excursion to this city. The {identity of the injured and the nature lof their injuries is withheld by the }hospital authorities. - { It is understood that among the in ’jured in the accident were Mrs, Dr. | Davenport of Watertown, Mass., and ers. Sunden of Lincoln, N2b, Mrs. Sunden was cut about the face and an !kles, 5 ALL QUIET IN COLON. !candidates of Obaldia Successful—No Trouble at Polls, " Colon, Panama:—General Obaldia’s {candidates carried municipal elections ‘here Dby a majority of ninety-four {votes. Throughout the election order !prevailed. The government party is {downcast by the result. United States | marines are ashore in the canal zone !to protect property of the American {government but no trouble is expect led, ’ As an additional precaution all the ‘docks and the railroad tracks in this | vicinity were kept clear and fire hose Iwas distributed throughout.the vicin iity, A strict guard was ul\so main | tained over all buildings belonging to |the United States, | BiG EICE }lli.LS _(}(IMBINE. ]Merger Formed With Two and One -1 Half Million Capital. { New Orieans, La.—The big rice | mills of Louisiana have formed = a Ecombi.w or merger under the title of :the United Irrigation and Rice Mill {ing company, The La Palana, Hech inger, Jumbie, Lichtenstein and other rice Interests threughout Louisiana: ithe Independent Rice Mill, at Crow lley; Abbeville Mill, at Abbeyille; Don |aldsonville, at Donaldsonville; Eure ke Mill, at Estherwood, and Gueydan Mill, at Gueydan, enter the consolida tion, which also will control the Licht {enstein and ths Hechinger Irrigation [Plant at Crowley and the Abbeville | plant in Vermillion parish, . | HISTORY OF HIS LIFE, iWill be Written by John D. Rockefel.- i ler to Appear in a Magazine, { 'w York City.—John D. Rockefe! ler, according to aanouncement, has | decided to give to the world his own | history of his life, It will be publish {ed serially in a New York magazine, i beginning in October. | Mr. Rockefeller's autobiography is |to be published under the title of | “Some Random Reminiscences of Men tand Events.” Held at Princeton Home with Fiiends and Acquaintances. No Sermon or Address---Wordsworth’s “Character of the Happy Warrior” Read. Princeton, N. J.—All that wag mor tal of Grover Cleveland, former presi dent of tae United States, was buried in the Cleveland family plot in Old Princeton's cemetery Friday after noon, just as the last rays of the sun fell acress the grave. A distinguished party of statesmen as well as con freres of the former official stood by in silence and witnessed the last hon- Ors to the dead ex-president. Then the cortege left the cemetery. : Agreeable to the wishes of Mrs, Cleveland, the services both at the house and at the cemetery were of the simplest character. Although the funeral was of a strict ly private nature, those in attendanca numbered many distinguished eiti zens, including President Roosevelt, Governors Fort of New Jersey, Hughes of New York, Hoke Smith of Georgia, former members of Presideat C.eve land’s cabinet, officials of the Equita ble Life Assurance society, members of the Princeton university faculty ant friends and neighbors, Mr, Cleveland was buried with all the simplicity and privacy that he him self wished as a private cilizen rather than as tae former chief executive of the nation, th: se'vices began with an inveeca tion by Rev. Sylvester W. Beach of the First Presbyterian church of rrinceion, whica was followed by Scriptural reading by Rev. Maitland V. Partlett of the West Farms Presby terian church of New York, a former pastor of Mr. Cleveland, who read from the 14th chapter of the book of John, and also read a number of pass ages from tihe 4th and 22d chapters of the Thessalonians, Dr. Henry Van Dyke then said: “According to the request of one whose slightest wish at this moment we all respect, there will be no ad dress or sermon, but there was a poem writlen more than a hundred years ago by William Wordsworth which is expressive of his character.” ; He then read the poem, “Character of the Happy Warrior.” g This was followed by readings from the Presbyterian book of Commoan Worship, the services at the ‘house house concluding with this prayer: The services were concluded at 5:30 and five minutes iater the casket had been tenderly carried to the hearse and the procession started on its way to the cemetery. Alcag the streets from the house to cemetery, national guardsmen, mounted and on foot, po liced the way, : wre Ee -, - ™ o i N iy, USED AS WASH RAG. 51 American F@u'ght to Regain Flagthe / | . Was Pursued by Army. SBR Washington, D, C.—The Amé in Panama have had cause for WG~ |Drotests recently, not on accourt§ | the Panama elections, but because Of an incident which called in action a portion of the Panama army. S A foreign.commercial house in Co lon insulted the American flag, using it to, wash the windows of the estab- Ilishment. Wayne O, Adams, of the |canal zone, as the story goes, wit (nessed the desecration of the stars }and stripes and engaged in a hard | fought battle for the possession of one |of ‘the flags which were being used to |clean windows, ; | He was pursued, according to re h)orts, by a section of the army of 'Panama, consisting of two policemen jand a member of the militia in full re |galia, > | As a result of the disrespect shown the flag by the commercial house in | question tne canal zone from one end |to the other is hung with boycott !signs and the offenders have found |less expensive wash rags. , ~ ADVANGES T 0 ROYAL FAMILY. | Demand fer Vigorous Investigation of Affairs in Portugal, | Lisbon, Portugal.—A mass meeting organized by the republicans and pre sided over by Bernadino Machado, the republican leader, passed resolutions demanding a vigorous investigation of the advances of money to the royal |family and the misuse of public funds during the regime of the late King |Carlos, A sirong force of police sur ‘rounded the meeling place, but there | was no interference with the speakers, some of whom were most violent in their expressions. No untoward in | cidents tool place, | CHINESE EXCLUSIGN, | Minister Wu To Know How Many Wil { be Admitted. | Honolulu—~The Chinese committee | which has charge of the agitation for {a modification of the exclusion laws |laws so as to permit of a limited im | migration of Chinese to these islands |has received a letter from Minister | Wu Ting Fang at Washington askiog what number of Chinese immigrants: lit suggests should be admitted here {annually, The committee has replied | that it desires that 5,000 a year should ibe admitted for about seven years, in {addition to their families. It esti | mates that with such an immigration ;there would be at the end of ten | years only about 50,000 Chinese in the | territory. | SPANISH SHIP AT HAVANA. ?First to Visit Cuban Port Since Amer ican War, | Havana, Cuba—The schoolship Naut {ilus, the first Spanish ship of the navy | to enter Cuban pnrts since the relin |quishment of Spanish sovereignty in i the island, came into the haibor of Havana and was hailed with enthusi |astic expressions of delight by the en | tire Spanish colony of the ecity, many thousands of Cubans joining in the | demounstration, LATE NEWS NOTES. General. Lawrence Friend, a brakeman, was mangled beneath the wheels of the Knickerbocker Special at Paris, 111., after he had saved scores of lives by preventing the fast Big Foar passen ger train from crashing head-on into a row of freight cars, Friend turned the switch in time to swing the pas senger train on to a side-track, but not quickly enough to get out of the way of the engine. He was decapitated and has body dragged ‘several hundred yards before the engineer was able to stop the train, Consul General Richard Guenther of Frankfort, Germany, advises that, as cording to press accounts, negotiations are now going on between the cotton spinners’ associations of England and Germany, having for their objeet an agreement to regulate—that is, limit— the production of cotton yarns in the two countries. The board of health of the city of New Orleans has a plan by which they hope to exterminate a large number of rats, with which the city is over run; They secured fifty large rats and inoculated them with virus that will produce fatal diseases and turned them loose in different parts of the city. The experiment is being watch ed with great interest by other cities similarly afflicted. / Former Alderman William 8. Clif-\ ford of New York City who pleaded guilty to bribery, was sentenced in the superior court to pay SI,OOO fine or to serve 1,000 days in imprisonment, * It wag said that friends would furnish the money for Clifford. Upon information made by National Bank Examiner Folds of Pittsburg, ~Pa., J. W. Tiers, discount clerk of the First National bank of Pittsburg, is under arrest with $51,000 on the wrong side of the balance, The property, franchises and entire rights of the Brooklyn Ferry company, said to be worth $10,000,000, were sold at public auction for $25,000 to the New York Terminal company, It is pre dicted that all but two of the com pany’s seven ferry lines will be shut down because thoy are operating at a loss. “Jackie” Clark, the Australian bicy cle rider, lowered the world's three mile record at the trask at Salt Lake . City, riding the distance in 5:49 34, An offer by Dr. Hamilton Fisk Big gar, John D. Rockefeller's physician, to kiss any woman who would give SIOO to the propaganda fund, created the merriest time of the Homeopathic National convention at Kansag City. The fun continued for thirty minutes -and $5,000 was pledged, enough of it by women doctors to keep Dr. Biggar busy trotting up and down the aisles trying to catch-the givers and fulfill “hig part of the contract. A list of pensions granted by the ‘English government in the past year for services to science and literature 1 include $250 yearly to aul Foun tain, an American traveler and writer, “in consideration of his contributions to literature and his strained circum | % lille temporarily insane, Mrs. Au . & P. Johnson of lda Grove, lowa, M&, yned her four little children in the twen@n at their farm house. i{i,- special dispatch from Corunna, AU n, says that the Spanish steamer e - Rache went on the rocks near #ros. It has been ascertained that the number of passengers and crew of the La Rache totalled 150. Sixty-five persons are known to have heén saved, but the fate of the other eighty-five is not known, and- it is feared that most of them perished. / The law passed by the last Texas legislature taxing barbers has been declared unconstitutional Dy the courts of that state, inasmuch as It‘ makes a class distinction. The will of Benjamin Hart, an Amer ican millionaire, who died in Paris, which has been filed in New York and “which left his entire estate to his housekeeper, has been attacked by his adopted daughter on the grounds of ‘undue influence, As tha result of an explesion in the plant of the Babst Chemical company ‘ at Chicago five women were burned to death aad more than a score of oth ers seriously injured. Following prolonged negotiations both at Tokio and Pekin on the gener al subject of the commercial depart ment of Manchuria, the Japanese gov ernment instructed its charge d’af faires at Pekin to notify China that Japan wouald throw no obstacle in the way of the development of Chinese territory in Manchuria. e ; Washington, The-United States National Muszum at Washington has received as a gift from. J, N. Leger, the Haytien minis. ter to tine United States, a case con taining models representing over 100 different vegetables and fruits of Hay ti, arranged for exhibition purposes, Acting Secretary of State Adee and Mr. Godoy, the Mexican charge, ex changed ratlfications of a general ar bitration treaty. 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